Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek, which has remained mute over a release date for its R2 reasoning model, has begun recruiting interns to label medical data to improve the use of AI in hospitals.
The intern roles are not listed on DeepSeek’s official WeChat hiring channel. It is the first time that DeepSeek has publicly mentioned the need for “medical data” in data labelling.
The hiring notice on Boss said applicants should have medical backgrounds, and either be undergraduates in their fourth year or have a master’s degree. As well, they need experience in using large language models (LLMs), and should be able to write Python code and write prompts for large AI models.
DeepSeek did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
The move comes as Chinese hospitals embrace open-source AI models from DeepSeek to generate diagnoses and prescriptions. As of March, at least 300 hospitals in China have started using DeepSeek’s LLMs in clinical diagnostics and medical decision support.